Creating and Administering Google Cloud Spanner Instances
This course covers practical aspects of working with Cloud Spanner, Google’s proprietary relational database management system (RDBMS) service. It is the only globally distributed, strongly consistent RDBMS with horizontal scaling.
What you'll learn
Relational Databases have traditionally relied on vertical scaling, but Google’s Cloud Spanner is carefully architected to provide horizontal scaling and global replication with all the rigors of strong consistency. Because Spanner is such a unique product, getting the best out of it does require you to understand its subtleties. In this course, Creating and Administering Google Cloud Spanner Instances, you will gain the ability to identify when Spanner is the right tool for you, and then correctly design your data and configure your instance to get the best out of Spanner’s formidable capabilities. First, you will learn where Cloud Spanner fits in the suite of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) storage technologies and how it compares to BigQuery, Cloud SQL, and others. Next, you will discover Spanner’s data model and how it enables horizontal scaling. Finally, you will explore how to use Spanner in conjunction with other GCP services, notably Dataflow templates, for migrating data into Spanner. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Cloud Spanner needed to architect solutions to problems that require global replication, strong consistency, and horizontal scaling in a relational database management system (RDBMS).
Table of contents
- Module Overview 1m
- Prerequisites and Course Outline 4m
- Introducing Cloud Spanner 7m
- Transactional and Analytical Processing 6m
- Horizontal Scaling and Strong Consistency 6m
- Instances and Nodes 6m
- Schema and Data Model 5m
- Replication 6m
- Best Practices 3m
- Creating and Managing Instances Using the Web Console - I 2m
- Creating and Managing Instances Using the Web Console - II 6m
- Creating and Managing Instances Using the Web Console - III 2m
- Working with an Instance Using gcloud 4m
- Pricing 3m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Vitthal has spent a lot of his life studying - he holds Masters Degrees in Math and Electrical Engineering from Stanford, an MBA from INSEAD, and a Bachelors Degree in Computer Engineering from Mumbai. He has also spent a lot of his life working - as a derivatives quant at Credit Suisse in New York, then as a quant trader, first with a hedge fund in Greenwich and then on his own, and finally at Google in Singapore and Flipkart in Bangalore. In all these roles, he has written a lot of code, and b... more